Setting up an online Git Repository

Two possible alternatives are:

• Using Atlassian Bitbucket_: it is free for public and private repositories (up to 5 team members), and also supports Mercurial repositories.

• Using GitHub_: it is free for public repositories

Using Bitbucket

1. Create a Bitbucket account and a new repository “projectXPTO”

2. Install Git in your computer and set the global configuration (usig Git Bash):

   $ git config --global user.name "johndoe"
   $ git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com
   

3. Create a local git repository:

   $ mkdir /path/to/your/project
   $ cd /path/to/your/project
   $ git init
   

4. Link the remote git repository to your local repository:

   $ git remote add origin https://johndoe@bitbucket.org/johndoe/projectXPTO.git
   

5. Add a ReadMe file:

   $ echo "# This is my README" >> README.md
   $ git add README.md
   

6. Commit and push the first change:

   $ git commit -m "First commit. Adding a README."
   $ git push -u origin master
   

Using GitHub

The steps are similar to the ones when using Bitbucket…

1. Create a GitHub account and a new repository “projectXPTO”

(steps 2 and 3 as above)

4. Link the remote git repository to your local repository:

   $  git remote add origin https://github.com/johndoe/projectXPTO.git
   

(steps 5 and 6 as above)